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title: Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow in his right hand, he started off eastward. Who acts: Iktomi. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 122

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Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow in his right hand, he started off eastward.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** wear, carry, start off · **To what, where:** handsome buckskins, magic arrow, right hand

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:8:122
# text = Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow in his right hand, he started off eastward.
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | the handsome buckskins |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent buckskin=Source |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | the magic arrow |  | Iktomi's right hand |  | proudly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arrow=Value in hand=Location |
| 3 | **start off** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | eastward *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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